A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.